One side of the war is mainly the Sudanese military and a Sudanese milita group called the Janjaweed. The Janjaweed is mostly from the Afro-Arab Abbala tribes of the northern Rizeigat region in Sudan.
Jeddah is the main gateway to Mecca.  Mecca is Islam's holies city.  Muslims are required to visit Mecca at least once in their life if they are physically capable of doing so.
The Great Dark Spot represents a hole in the methane cloud deck of Neptune.
"Saturday" records a very eventful day in the life of a successful neurosurgeon.
The tarantula (the trickster) spun a black cord and attached it to the ball before it crawled away fast to the east while pulling on the cord with all his strength.